Tagged “science”
- The Limits of Understanding: Do the Social Sciences Actually Explain Anything?
- Heritability and the Discomfort That Follows It
- Mathematics Is More Imaginative Than Any Mythology
- Your Morality Is Mostly Reputation Management
- Free Will Is the Last Consoling Story
- The Self Is a Useful Illusion
- Introspection Is a Press Secretary, Not a President
- Why Theology Has Never Discovered Anything
- Prediction Is the Real Magic
- The Anthropocentric Conceit and the Long Demotion
- The Engineers Pay for Everyone's Fantasies
- The Imagination of Science Dwarfs the Imagination of Fiction
- The Mind Is the Brain, and Pretending Otherwise Is a Special Pleading
- Neurotheology: When God Is a Brain State
- What the Prayer Studies Actually Found
- What Brain Damage Tells Us About the Soul
- Why Won't God Heal Amputees?
- Unfalsifiability Is Not a Strength
- Religions Behave Like Memes, Not Revelations
- The "God of the Gaps" and Scientific Progress
- The Singularity Breaks Ideologies
- Consciousness Is Probably Not Binary
- Why Truth-Finding Rejects Democracy but Politics Requires It
- Biology Proves Hierarchy Is Optional
- We Want Purposes That Evolution Did Not Give Us
- Companies Should Declare the Philosophy They Depend On
- Rich and Poor Are Becoming Different Species
- Are We Becoming More Connected to Reality, or Less?
- The Definition of Good Will Not Hold Still
- Beauty Is Not Truth — It Is an Artifact of Our Brain Size
- Why Philosophy Is in Such a Dismal State
- Understanding Is Compression